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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: t6200: avoid path mangling issue on Windows
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:22:30 +0200
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Am 21.04.2013 02:05, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> But a _real user_ who wants to use a slash there has no way of doing
>> so.
> 
> Doesn't foo=// do that in the msys world?  If I am reading
> mingw/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc correctly then the way to pass
> a true double-slash is foo=///.

That would be totally unexpected.

-- Hannes